FELLOW'S CHALLENGE JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2005

 

In this issue, the fellow challenge walks you down memory lane through some FAMOUS FIRSTS!  Match the columns to get the right answers in the next issue.

 

WHO ?

 

WHAT WERE THEY?

WHAT DID THEY DO ?

WHEN?

1 Raynaud

 

A. U.K. based rheumatologist,

Editor,’Lupus

I  Described a disease that traces the Ancient Silk Road.

a 1967

2 Hulusi Behcet

B. French medical student

II   Described the Hypermobility syndrome

b 1983

3 George Frederick Still

C. Doyens of pediatric rheumatology

III  Described a triple phase blanching response

c 1937

4 Ansell and    Bywaters

D. Medical Registrar when he described this entity

IV Described a common prothrombotic autoimmune disease

d  lived from 1890-1974

5 Heimrich Adolf Gottron

 

E. Turkish dermatologist

V   Wrote a treatise on this condition that bears his name.

e 1862

6 Graham Robert Vivian Hughes

F. German dermatologist

VI   Described skin lesions which are seen on bony prominences and are a major criterion for the diagnosis of  JDM

f 1897

 

AUTHORS OF THIS FELLOW'S CHALLENGE

Dr. Vijay Vishwanathan, DCH
Dr.
R.P. Khubchandani, MD

Jaslok Hospital and Research Center, Mumbai, India

The reader interested in eponyms and pages from the history of medicine is referred to the website www.whonamedit.com

 

Please send your answers to Linda Wagner-Weiner at her e-mail at lww@uchicago.edu or fax the response to 1-773-363-0427.

 

The winner will be announced in the March-April PROJ and the answers provided.